My Grandma Bonnie

Well, I have been working on this layout for a while. 

It is one of the special pages you just have to get perfect.

So, I worked on it and stared at it for days 

adjusting little pieces here and there. 

Really taking time to ponder what exactly I wanted to say.  

I have these great pictures of when she was younger. 

 I used her wedding photo, and a great one with her younger sister,

but her prom picture is my favorite.  

I wanted to incorporate a picture of what she looked like 

the way I remember her too, 

so I turned it black and white so it would match the others.  

Here is the tribute to my Grandma, I hope you like it...

The Journaling:

"My Grandma Bonnie was always 

the epitomy of Grandmaness.  

She was always helping others, 

sewing, cooking, and handmaking 

gifts for all of her grandchildren

Her beauty truly started 

on the inside and radiated out

of her entire life.

the strips on top right:

"the key to true beauty starts in the heart"

It is so interesting to me 

that I looked just like her younger sister

when I was little.

And, we never realized how much 

my sister resembled Grandma Bonnie 

until we saw this picture of her

at her senior prom.

Truly, a beautiful lady.

Lots of Love,

 
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Go for the Layers

Okay, so maybe it's the rainy cold day, or maybe it's what I do 

ya know to get into scrappin mood,  

but what ever the reason, I love layers!!!

All of these patterns came together in the cosmo cricket packet.

So, it was really easy to put this page together!

 I am just drawn to the cute little birds! 

But I did not want to do the typical friends page

"Birds of a feather..." and all so I just had fun with it.

 I do not have any pictures yet, but that is okay, 

I can put any pictures I want on this page.

It is just fun and the colors are soft but the contrast is great.

I could always add some big letters to personalize it for 

whatever the specific pictures I do pick. 

Lots of Love,

Where the heck have I been lately!!!

Wow, has it really been almost a month since I posted?  I am soo sorry.  

Things have just been busy around here!!!  We went to Florida to visit my Dad. 

My sister in law had her twins! A boy and a girl.  My Grandmother passed away (my dad's mom). 

We made another trip to Florida.  Lots going on.  And there is so much I want to share with you.  

I can hardly decide what to share first.  So, I think I will start with what I have started with.  

Sometimes, when I am really emotional I have to start creating with projects that don't matter to me so much

on an emotional level.  I worked up to making a memorial page for my grandma.  I will share it soon.

and now that I am done with it, I want to move on to the twins page. It will be special.

To get the creativeness going...

I altered my bulletin board to look like a scrapbook page.  

The one thing I did differently than I have before, is make mats (like you would have for a picture). 

You pin your notes just on those spots.  This keeps the whole thing looking nice and not completely covered in crazy layers of papers all over the place. Not to mention the fact that when you keep putting pins all over the place you get holes in the paper all over, which gets ugly after a while. 

The mats with the lines on them I placed a piece of clear contact paper over it,

and ta-da it becomes a dry erase spot!!! clever I know!

I still want to put a few more things on it. like along the top edge in the green border I want to put a favorite quote, but I need to pick a favorite quote first! How bout you all share your favorites here!!!

that would be so fun!

Okay I can't wait to show you my new A tooo so here it is

I found this frame at micheals for $1 can you believe it! Score!

It is a 7x7 frame, and the pink is fuzzy!!!

I cut out the letter A with my pazzle. then a circle with green and roughed the edges.

layers of flowers with crystal brads. what a great addition to the collection of A's

Lots of Love,